Before & After: This Accessible Catskills Retreat Brings Together Three Generations of Family
Designer Fauzia Khanani of Studio For revises a ’70s ranch house to provide independence for the homeowners’ daughter, who uses a wheelchair.
Designer Fauzia Khanani of Studio For revises a ’70s ranch house to provide independence for the homeowners’ daughter, who uses a wheelchair.
A little more than 20 years ago, Fauzia Khanani was seated next to Julie Kim in their first graduate school architecture class at Berkeley. "Our last names have the same first letter, and it was assigned seating," Khanani recalls. After graduating, they both stayed on the West Coast for a while and then, for different reasons, moved east. "I went back to New York a couple of years later, and she and her family moved here during the pandemic, to be closer to her relatives," she says.
By then, Kim had met and married Sean, who works in IT, and they had two children, a boy and a girl. "Going from a single-family home in California that had a yard to a small apartment without one was a tough transition for their family," says Khanani, who founded the firm Studio For. "They started looking for a second property upstate, and since my firm has done a lot of projects in the Hudson Valley, Julie called me to help."
Before: Exterior
After: Exterior
The punchy, pink front door pops against the renovated home’s charcoal gray exterior.
Photo by Alan Tansey
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